The Student Association Mass Transit Board has initiated a DeKalb-Sycamore route that will allow Sycamore resients to use the Huskie Bus Line. SAMTB Chairman Dave Emerick said, "Student fees will not be increase because of the new route. In fact, in the...

"(Jim Rodger's) death has stopped us all dead in our tracks ... and made us evaluate how we want to live our lives ...." These were the words of Father Stephen Potter as he spoke at a memorial service for the 21-year-old NIU senior who was shot and killed...

Students interested in running for one of seven Student Association senator vacancies have until 4:30 p.m. today to submit their completed petitions. Fourteen petitions for five off-campus seats and eight petitions for two on-campus seats had been picked...

Students enrolled in NIU foreign language classes will be able to earn master's degrees in foreign languages and literatures beginning in the fall of 1990. Approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education at its December meeting, the new degree will...

The possibility of a split between NIU and the Board of Regents, teacher evaluations and the rewording of University Council bylaws headed the agenda of the council's Wednesday meeting. While neither NIU President John LaTourette or Provost Kendall Baker...

I don't usually like to comment on arguable issues. It is much easier to just nod my head, keep my mouth shut and smile when people say things I don't necessarily agree with. But there comes a time when you have to decide to either take a stand or a backseat....

James Harder, NIU vice president for business and operations, recently accepted the NIU Holmes Student Center Bookstore Evaluation Committee's recommendation to retain NIU-ownership of the bookstore. The recommendation was made at the committee's Dec....

After protests by Sycamore merchants, a proposal to sell county farm land for the development of a shopping mall was defeated by the DeKalb County Board at its meeting Wednesday, but the dispute could resurface in several months. The motion to sell 113...

A convicted murderer, whose attempted escape routed him through parts of DeKalb County and ended in Sycamore Sept. 26, received an additional 30 years to his prison sentence Thursday after abductiong a Kendall County farmer during his flight. During a...

Bryan Sims knew something was a little fishy when his boss told him to move some helicopter equipment one day in 1986. His superiors at the Corpus Christi, Texas Naval Air Station were asking him to transfer parts from a Huey helicopter to a search-and-rescue...

A resolution concerning the disbanding of the little sister program at NIU fraternities was passed Tuesday night at the first Interfraternity Council meeting of the semester. IFC President Jim Valentine said the termination of the little sister program...

With about $500 million of state funds remaining from an unsuccessful attempt to build the Superconducting Super Collider in Illinois, state universities are hoping to grab a portion of the leftovers to fund additional science and technology projects....